LearningChannel.org Digest Wed, 14 Nov 2001

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http://www.learningchannel.org/news/headlines/

Poor teaching standards worry Kenyan government
http://allafrica.com/stories/200111120583.html
Poor teaching standards among primary teachers in Kenya is worring the government. The concern has been triggered off by reports that some students have reached the middle school level, without knowing how to read and write.

Child protection is dealt blow by Government proposals
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/pressrels/071101.html
The British government's failure to bring in a legislation to ban smacking of children in the country has dismayed civil society organsiations.

Coping with questions on terrorism
http://www.dep.org.uk/globalexpress/
Do the children in your classroom ask you questions about the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre? Global express provides a rapid response that would help the students understand the issues involved.

Distance education for the Arab world
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/news/2001/011023_distance_training.shtml
Information flow to and within the Arab world will take a new dimension as a distance communication programme comes into force soon.

Nuns expelled from Tibetan institute
http://www.tibetinfo.net/news-updates/nu081101.htm
New evidence reaching the Tibetan Information Network has revealed that one nun was driven to suicide and hundreds were expelled from a Tibetan learning institute after Chinese work teams stormed the Serthar institute. The Institute is located in Tibet's Sichuan area.

moved into Serthar in June.

Students to face tough time getting US visas
http://allafrica.com/stories/200111030016.html
The new immigraton laws proposed by the American government would make it harder for students to obtain visas to the much sought after student destination.

Success Stories
http://www.learningchannel.org/success_stories/

Advancing human rights through mass organisations
http://www.changemakers.net/journal/01november/index.cfm
Human rights membership associations from Mumbai to Jakarta to Cape Town, are enabling the marginalised to campaign for the rights promised to them - security, participation in government, equal treatment under the law, livelihood - but seldom delivered without a struggle.

Making refugees feel welcome
http://www.teacher.co.za/200111/refugees.html
Clareville Primary, a school in Durban, South Africa, has a number of children of refugees at its school, and has gone out of its way to welcome them.

Analysis
http://www.learningchannel.org/views/analysis/

Can education help in the fight against HIV/AIDS?
http://www.id21.org/zinter/id21zinter.exe?a=4&i=InsightsGVEart4&u=3bf0f8d1
Yes, but to an extent only, as this study in Uganda goes to show.

When the guns fall silent
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/questioning/postconflict.htm
Rebuilding, reconstruction and peacebuilding are going to be key words as rethinking gets underway on what happens after the war in Afghanistan.

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